Experience

BrickKicker

• United States

• the BrickKicker of South Central Wisconsin

  • 2010 - Present

  Franchise owner of a “the BrickKicker” Inspection Services franchise covering south central Wisconsin. State of Wisconsin and Illinois licensed home inspector. Began training with ASHI certified inspectors in August of 2010. Daily tasks include marketing, advertising, training, forecasting, financial, and providing inspection services to clients in the home, and commercial real estate markets. Strengths include a great deal of ethical professionalism, and diverse levels of communication skills to work with various clients from real estate agents, home owners, to business vendors. Requires a high degree of knowledge of the working elements of home and commercial environments with the ability to mentor others on the operation of those elements, and communicate effectively using verbal and report written documentation. Member of Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors, and InterNACHI. Show less


BVR Esterline
• Manufacturing Supervisor

  • Aug 2012 - Feb 2013


Woodward

• United States
• Recreational Facilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Supervisor

  • 1986 - 2010

  Achieved promotions during 24-year tenure with Woodward Governor, culminating in current responsibility for coordinating all prototype, development, rework, tooling, and low volume production functions and supervising a team of thirty-five manufacturing professionals across grinding, manual jig bore, cnc mill, cnc and manual lathe, metal finishing, and assembly functions of aerospace products for aircraft fuel delivery systems. CNC programming, and processing performed by the team using offline programming, and modeling software. Responsibility included on-time delivery, responsiveness, quality, and cost metrics. Responsible for performance reviews, and wage adjustments for direct reports. Encouraged process improvements towards a Six Sigma environment. Planning, prioritization, and inventory management for production components of low volume hardware. Quickly became a trusted leader with the procurement of time sensitive development projects, and earned a reputation for maintaining a positive attitude and producing high-quality work. Over the years, responsibility included direct reports as high as forty-five team members across metrology, electro discharge machining, receiving inspection, coordinate measurement inspection, and shipping groups. Part of a team of five to develop, and establish a feature based manufacturing system for the manufacture of aerospace fuel delivery system housings on cnc milling centers. Fifteen day lead time with zero setup time. Graduate of Woodward’s “Leadership Development Training Program”. Training in Lean Enterprise Systems Design Institute through the University of Tennessee, Facilitative Leadership training from Interaction Associates, and Achieving Competitive Excellence through Pratt & Whitney Canada. Extensive 5S, TPM, Six Sigma, and Kaizan training through Woodward’s internal continuous improvement program. Show less